It's not true, though, that 70% of Americans hew to standard partisan platforms. Polling consistently shows that support is heterogeneous (https://www.pewresear

It's not true, though, that 70% of Americans hew to standard partisan platforms. Polling consistently shows that support is heterogeneous (https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/06/22/5-views-of-parties-positions-on-issues-ideologies/ https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/06/22/5-views-of-p...): positions on individual issues have strong majority support within each party, but a strong majority of individual people disagree with some of their party's positions.